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THE 

ANARCHICAL AND REVOLUTIONARY 
CHARACTER 

OF A 


DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 


A SUPPLEMENT 


To “Democracy Considered as a Party Name, and as a 
Political Organization.” 










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By JONATHAN NORCROSS. - J c 

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This country affords the last stronghold of a Democratic Organiza¬ 
tion , and it is unquestionably certain that this Party must be broken 
up, or it will break up the Government of the United Stales, and over¬ 
turn American civilization . 


ATLANTA, GA.: 

Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Printers, 
(Franklin Publishing House.) 











Entered according to Act ol Congress, in the year 1891, by 
JONATHAN NORCROSS, 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 


PREFACE. 


§ EVEN YEARS ago the writer of these pages gave to the 
public a volume of 227 pages, entitled: “The History of 
Democracy, Considered as a Party Name, and a Political 
Organization. ” 

In that book are presented many facts and events, and also 
some reflections bearing upon the conduct, and crimes com¬ 
mitted by Democratic parties in several countries, and at vari¬ 
ous times, commencing with ancient Greece. These were all 
given in as mild and inoffensive form as truth and duty would 
seem to allow. The volume was favorably received, and exten¬ 
sively commented upon by the leading newspapers of the 
country. Its sales were moderate, and to the writer’s own 
knowledge, it did good service in enlightening the minds of 
many voters, and influenced them to abandon this anarchical 
and dangerous party. 

The author, having now enjoyed seven years more of reading, 
observation and reflection as to the operations of this fearful 
party, feels pressed, as he trusts, by the Spirit of Almighty 
God to give to the public a supplement to this book, contain¬ 
ing further definitions, facts, and the shocking events con¬ 
nected with this party, with the hope of doing something more 
toward warning his countrymen of its terrible power to obstruct 
the march'and turn back the civilization of our country. 

The entire work is on a cast and line of thought which, so 
far as the writer is aware, has never before been occupied in 
the form of a treatise or book. He therefore hopes and trusts 
it will be well received, and studied, by his countrymen. The 
question as to whether a Democratic party, or those who are 
opposed to such an organization, shall bear rule in this country 
is one of fearful interest and import to all. 

Much confusion and misunderstanding have been produced, 
both by European and American writers on politics, political 


IV 


PREFACE. 


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inate use of the words Republicanism and Democracy, and one 
purpose of this supplement is to show that there is as much 
difference, both in theory and practical results of the two 
words, as between morality and immorality, or between virtue 
and vice, or truthfulness and falsehood. 

It may — and should—be remarked in this preface, that the 
author has no criticisms, or reproaches, to cast upon the thou¬ 
sands of young men and brave soldiers who gave their lives 
and services to a cause which they had been led to believe 
was proper and just by a wide-spread and powerful political 
organization. 


CONTENTS. 


I. Natural and Genuine Democracy—Its Character¬ 
istics—Its Original Sins and Teachings. 1 

II. Republicanism the only Decalogue for American 
Statesmen and Patriots. 13 

III. What is Ihe True Meaning of the Word Democ¬ 

racy in its Practical and Political Applications 
and Uses?.... 19 

IV. Some of the Virtues and the Vices of Local De¬ 

mocracy—Democracy always Dangerous. 27 

V. Who, and What Party, or Parties, Persons and 
Interests Sowed the Seeds, and WQrked up the 
Great American Rebellion?. 36 

VI. Facts and Deductions from the Democracy of 
Ancient Greece—Its Fluctuations between An¬ 
archy and Despotism—Despotism the Main Feat¬ 
ure, and Cause of Success—The Final Wreck and 
Ruin which the Two Principles Acting Alter¬ 
nately Brought upon the Most Favored and 
Brilliant People of Ancient Times. 44 

VII. Democracy in France—The Part it Played in the 

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CHAPTER I. 


NATURAL AND GENUINE DEMOCRACY-ITS CHARAC¬ 
TERISTICS-ITS ORIGINAL SINS AND TEACHINGS. 

Many honest and profound thinkers hold to the 
total depravity of mankind, and whether this theology 
be sound or unsound, it is unquestionably true that 
a large portion, say at least one-third of the popula¬ 
tion of the most enlightened communities, are natural 
enemies of good order, good laws, and other civil¬ 
ized institutions. To state these facts more in detail, 
more than one-third of the population of the most 
orderly community are opposed in heart, if not in 
practice, to all restrictions upon their passions, appe¬ 
tites and ambitions, whether they be rich or poor, 
learned or unlearned, and consequently they are 
opposed to moral and civil laws and govern¬ 
ments, such as all experience and sound philosophy 
demonstrate to be inseparable from intelligent, happy 
and progressive communities. To state these facts 
in still other words, about one-third of the popula¬ 
tion of any country are either loafers, gamblers, 
cheats and tricksters, liars, thieves, robbers and 
murderers, whether they are in or out of prison, 
whether they are known or unknown to the officers 
of the law. 

1 


2 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

Nor is this estimate in conflict with the teachings 
of the book called the Bible. In what is known as 
barbaric communities nearly all evidently belong to 
the anarchical classes. These facts are demonstrated 
to be true both in civilized and barbarous communi¬ 
ties, both by the great length of time and the vast 
amount of labor required on the part of the truthful 
and honest portion of the people to elevate a barbar¬ 
ous community to the civilized condition, and the 
vast amount of labor and expense required, on the 
part of the honest and truthful, to keep civilized 
society from relapsing into barbarism. The propen¬ 
sity, also, on the part of many, both in the civilized 
and barbarous condition, for war and bloodshed 
affords demonstrative proof of these positions. 

It is indisputably true that good laws and good 
government flow, by the help of God, from the truth¬ 
ful, the honest, the most intelligent and self-denying 
portion of the people, and not from that portion 
which are swayed solely by their passions, appetites 
and wild ambition, such as mankind always manifest 
in the savage condition. 

Modern naturalists have discoursed largely about 
‘evolution, natural selection, and the survival of the 
fittest.” These terms may be very useful in the 
study of the history and growth of plants and trees,, 
but they afford no guide or safe rule in straighten¬ 
ing, squaring and shaping political and moral insti¬ 
tutions, nor do the laws of nature produce the grain, 
the vegetables and the fruits that civilized society 


NATURAL AND GENUINE DEMOCRACY. 


3 


demands without the labor and genius of man. How 
much worse off are we then, even in our physical 
affairs, without genius and labor, and how much 
more inviting is society where this genius and labor 
cause the fields to yield the wheat, the corn, and 
the fruits, than to allow them to be overrun with 
thorns, thistles, weeds, and tares ? “ Men,” savs 

the great Master of the world, “ do not gather 
grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles, nor does 
a corrupt fountain bring forth pure water.” To un¬ 
dertake to measure, strengthen, or construct moral 
or political machinery by natural instincts alone is to 
turn civilized society back to barbarism, or to the 
condition of the brute creation, and yet, if this is not 
precisely what leading Democrats are always doing 
or trying to do, what are they doing ? 

It is unquestionably true that about one-third of 
mankind, in their most enlightened communities, 
and about two-thirds of an ordinary Democratic 
party, regard the word Democracy as signifying 
that every man has a right to do as he pleases in 
all things and on all occasions, and as a conse¬ 
quence they are natural enemies of all restrictions 
upon the passions, appetites and wild ambitions, and 
are also natural enemies of good government and 
good laws, and such restraints of the passions and 
natural liberty as are absolutely necessary to good 
order and civilized society. This portion of the 
human family have but a dim conception of liberty 
and rights, regulated by law. And hence it is that 


4 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

we are always hearing from the rank and file of a 
Democatic party that we have too much govern¬ 
ment, too many laws, and too much interference 
with the privileges and indulgences of the people. 
And especially is this the case in large cities, where 
vice and folly run riot. And hence it is also true 
that we always hear the leaders of the Democratic 
party howling back to their constituents that we 
have too much government, too much legislation, 
too many restrictions and too many agents and 
officials to worry and torment the people, albeit 
these leaders are never surpassed, if equalled, in 
the wild hunt after office and the perquisites 
thereof. Nor have these leaders, when in control, 
ever been behind other party leaders in making 
new laws, and especially such as are necessary to 
overturn and abolish the laws enacted by wise and 
patriotic statesmen, or to promote their own selfish 
interests. And hence it comes to pass that when a 
Democratic party is in possession of supreme power 
its first aim is to destroy the character and 
standing of great men and patriotic statesmen, 
paralyze their influence, and to beat them down or 
swallow them up with floods of lies and hypocrit¬ 
ical cant. 

Nor, is it to be denied that, under ordinary cir¬ 
cumstances, whenever and wherever a Democratic^ 
party has been established, all, or nearly all, the 
loafers, gamblers, and tricksters, and nearly all the 
libertines, liars, thieves and murderers outside of 


NATURAL AND GENUINE DEMOCRACY. 


5 


prison walls, and some of them inside the bars, join 
themselves to the Democratic party. And is it not 
also true that another time-honored custom of De¬ 
mocracy, in all its shapes and forms, is seen in the 
howling and carping against the rich and well-to-do 
and their so-called schemes for accumulating wealth 
that has been produced by the Democracy, or, as 
they say, by the poor and laboring classes ? As if 
it were a crime in any one to accumulate property 
by honest industry and skill, albeit the principal 
Democratic chiefs are almost invariably, as every 
one knows, men of great wealth. And do not these 
rich Democrats also join in the howl against rich 
men because they are rich ? And do they not thus 
proceed with hypocritical cant and mountains of lies 
to assail honest and true patriots, and in thus acting 
often bring upon the country financial and material 
calamities ? Most assuredly they do this, as almost 
every democratic newspaper organ in the land fully 
testifies. 

The Bible is the chief book of history, visions and 
prophecies, whose profound moral and religious 
principles and precepts not even a Voltaire, a Tom 
Paine, a Hume or a Bob Ingersoll, with all their wit, 
logic and sarcasm, have been able to scathe or un¬ 
dermine—a book which floats upon all seas and 
upon all lands, and is not to be slighted or weak¬ 
ened by mortal breath or power—a book which lies 
behind and before us and on every side, to admonish 
and reprove, to teach and instruct, and picture all of 


6 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 


our sins and follies, whether we will or will not in¬ 
spect them. We have in this book sketches, pic¬ 
tures and landscapes of countries, persons and char¬ 
acters which seem to, and doubtless do, point to and 
represent all the characteristics, the phases and 
events of mankind in the past, as w'ell as the phases 
which are yet to come. x\nd if so, it would be 
strange if we could not recognize some visions, some 
prophecies and some pictures which apply to this 
our great countiy, its people, its institutions and its 
historical events. 

The following visions, prophecies and pictures 
may refer to other people and other countries; for 
men’s histories repeat themselves, but they do seem 
to represent and describe as clearly as words and 
parables can describe the history of this our Ameri¬ 
can continent and American people, from the adop¬ 
tion of the great American government and Consti¬ 
tution to the close of the great American Demo¬ 
cratic rebellion in 1865. 

The wonderful aptness with which the prophet 
evidently pictures the reign of Democracy in ancient 
Greece seems to indicate that he must have care¬ 
fully observed and studied that reign which had at 
his day reduced that brilliant people from a state of 
greatness to a semi-condition of anarchy and bar¬ 
barism. The prophet must also have seen in his 
vision this country as it has existed for die past 
hundred } T ears, much of which is unquestionably 
symbolized by the white, the red, the biack and the 


NATURAL AND GENUINE DEMOCRACY. 


7 


pale horses with their riders, in the apocalyptic 
visions 

The first horse whose color is white is clearly 
emblematic of the purity, virtue, and truly patriotic 
character of the men who first bore rule under the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, that is, 
in the administrations of Washington, and Adams, 
which were probably never surpassed in purity and 
patriotism. 

“And I saw, and behold a white horse; and he that 
sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto 
him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer.” 
Rev. 6: 2 . 

The second horse whose color was red is strik¬ 
ingly emblematic of the reign of mongrel Democ¬ 
racy and despotic power during the next decade or 
two. 

“And there went out another horse that was red, 
and power was given to him that sat thereon,” that 
is to say the mongrel Democracy, “to take peace 
from the earth, and that they should kill one another, 
and there was given unto him a great sword.” 

The third horse was black, and seems emblem¬ 
atic of the times in more ways than one. First, as 
to the negro or black race who were in bondage? 
and whose condition for the first time came up for 
discussion under the American government in the 
Missouri compromise, and their cry went up to 
heaven for relief, that relief which ultimately came 
in spite of the Democracy. And secondly, during 


8 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

this period the cold seasons, the short crops, and 
the famines of 1816 and 1817 occurred in many 
parts of the land, and a voice was heard saying, “a 
measure of wheat for a penny, and see that thou 
hurt not the oil and the wine”; for in 1818 warm 
and abundant seasons came back, and have contin¬ 
ued from those times unto the present day. 

“And I beheld, and, lo! a black horse, and he 
that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand: 
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts 
say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and see that 
thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” Rev. 6: 5 , 6 . The 
four beasts may be counted emblematic of the mon¬ 
grel Democracy, the slavery, the hypocrisy, and 
despotism which always accompany a Democratic 
party in power. A black horse is well suited as an 
emblem of that period. 

“ And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his 
name that sat on him was death, and hell followed 
with him. And power was given unto them over 
the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword, 
and with hunger, and with death, and with the 
beasts of the earth.” Rev. 6 : 8 . 

Here we have in the last metaphorical horse and 
its rider almost a literal picture of the great Amer¬ 
ican Democratic Rebellion against the Constitution 
and government of the United States. But to come 
down from prophecies and visions to plain and his¬ 
torical verities, no one can deny the facts that a 
Democratic party always includes and counts in its 


NATURAL AND GENUINE DEMOCRACY. 


9 


ranks the most restless, the most immoral and dan¬ 
gerous elements of society, and indeed, almost that 
entire element and portion of the population which has 
always rendered it next to impossible for the moral 
and patriotic portion to establish and maintain a pure 
and unadulterated republican form of government, 
or, if you please, that portion ofjhe population, which 
gives occasion for long and criminal codes of laws. 
No one can doubt that it was the most restless, im¬ 
moral and dangerous classes from which the Demo¬ 
cratic party of ancient Greece was made up. No 
one can deny that it was the most restless, immoral 
and dangerous classes from which the Democratic 
party of France was made up, Nor can any one 
deny that it was the most restless, immoral and 
dangerous classes from which the Democratic party 
of Jackson, Van Buren and Benton was made up. 
Nor can, nor ought, any one to deny that this Dem¬ 
ocratic party grew morally and politically worse 
until it had plunged our country into an insane and 
cruel civil war. Nor can, nor ought any one to 
deny that a Democratic party, when in power, nat¬ 
urally and inevitably grows worse and more danger¬ 
ous, on account of the bad elements which rush into 
and comprise a large portion of its membership. If, 
then, the worst elements of a community comprise 
a majority of the party, and that party predominates 
and controls the government, then it is only a ques¬ 
tion of time when it will plunge the people into 
strife, confusion and war among themselves. And 


IO CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

is not this precisely what every Democratic party 
that ever existed has done for their country and the 
people thereof, thus demonstrating its rule not only 
to be dangerous but to be wicked in the extreme ? 

But to quote another passage from the same 
prophet from which the above extracts are taken, it 
may with truth be said of every Democratic party, 
“Their power is in their mouth and in their tails, for 
their tails were like unto serpents, and with their 
tails they do hurt.” Rev. 9 : 19. 

Did not the Hon. John C. Calhoun, twice an idol 
of the Democracy and the party’s first Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, s&y in the Senate of the United States, “The 
party is kept together by the cohesive power of 
public plunder.” All of these words were demon¬ 
strated to be true especially during the incipient 
years, or during the reign of Jackson, Van Buren, 
and Benton. And did not the Democratic leaders 
and agents, during their thirty years reign, rob, 
steal, and plunder from the government and the peo¬ 
ple of the United States more than $50,000,000, as 
shown by actual figures from Secretary Guthrie and 
others ? And did they not so utterly bankrupt the 
government and the commerce and industry of the 
country that an extra session of Congress had to be 
called by Van Buren in 1837 to borrow money 
to save the government and the nation from 
utter ruin ? And did not a similar financial con¬ 
dition of. the government exist in i860, and be¬ 
fore the Republicans took control ? No such 


NATURAL. AND GENUINE DEMOCRACY. 


II 


a gang of thieves as the Swartouts, the Hoyts, 
the Prices, and the Armstrongs, the Kendalls, the 
Blairs and others ever before so plundered the 
government and people, or came so near sinking 
both into utter wreck and ruin in a time of peace. 
But what was if possible equally as bad, the Demo¬ 
cratic leaders, with their ignorant and depraved fol¬ 
lowers, had driven from power and almost from in¬ 
fluence every statesman of character and reputation 
in the land, including Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, 
and such men as Silas Wright of New York, and 
John P. King of Georgia, and even John C. Cal¬ 
houn for the time being, and undertook to brand 
them with disgrace and crime, for doing their duty 
to their country by what was known as “The Ex¬ 
punging Resolution,” under the leadership and boss- 
ism of Benton, afterward known as “the great Ex- 
punger.” 

Nor did the ugly reign and progress of the De¬ 
mocracy towards this great rebellion stop with the 
Jackson, Van Buren and Benton administrations. 
During the Democratic Mexican war, when Gen. 
Taylor and his brave soldiers had gained the battle 
of Buena Vista against vastly superior numbers, 
he was suddenly stripped of his army and left in the 
enemy’s country, with but a regiment or two, and 
when Gen. Winfield Scott had with a small force 
overcome and subdued the Mexican nation, instead of 
having him and his soldiers brought home to receive 
merited honors, the then typical Democratic Presi- 


12 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

dent had Scott arrested and tried on trumped up- 
charges in Pueblo, a Mexican city, and sought to 
have this man Benton, the Democratic Falstaff of 
America, appointed commander-in-chief of the victo¬ 
rious army—an act of hypocrisy, treachery, and 
ingratitude, which was defeated because two or three 
honest Democrats were found in the Senate of the 
United States to vote nay. 

And is it not always true that a Democratic party 
always rejects its best men, and selects and follows 
its most selfish and unscrupulous ones, as it did in 
the case of James K. Polk? And is it not too true 
that the leaders and organs of the party seldom, if 
ever, fail to assail with calumny, denunciation, and 
lies the best statesmen and patriots of the land, as 
well as the best measures and policies that wisdom 
has adopted? And if all or a part of these charges 
be true, should not such a party always be regarded 
as a political and moral pestilence “that walketh in 
darkness and wasteth at noonday ?” 


CHAPTER II. 


REPUBLICANISM THE ONLY DECALOGUE FOR AMERI¬ 
CAN STATESMEN AND PATRIOTS. 

While condemning the wrong and seeking reform 
in the affairs of this world, we are not only bound to 
point out and condemn the wrong, but to point out 
and commend the right, the just and the good. It has 
always been thus with the philanthropic and patri¬ 
otic in the progress and the enlightenment of man¬ 
kind. In condemning the idolatry and paganism of 
the world and the evils flowing therefrom, the 
Bible teachers and other reformers at the same time 
exhorted their fellow-men to adopt and practice a 
religion and morality founded on the existence and 
rule of one Almighty God. And now the time has 
arrived when such teaching and preaching against 
idolatry and paganism are everywhere commended, 
and the law of one Almighty God has become the 
standard and guide of morality, justice and truth as 
opposed to ignorance, depravity, and wrong of every 
kind throughout the enlightened world. And al¬ 
though vile men may deride and condemn the advo¬ 
cates of this religion, they dare not openly condemn 
and deride the decalogue of moral precepts which 
spring from and accompany this religious faith. 

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14 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

The same philosophy and sound reasoning apply 
to that branch of human affairs called politics or po¬ 
litical economy. In this branch the only decalogue 
which has stood the test of time, and the only hope 
and faith of freedom and equal rights, and the only 
safe foundation for civilized government and 'political 
happiness is found in the word Republicanism, 
with its cognate or kindred rules and lessons. Re¬ 
publicanism, with its just, and equitable representa¬ 
tives, with its written constitution, with an honest 
ballot, honest count, honest returns, and honest com¬ 
pliance therewith, contains, and presents the only 
political decalogue, with its rules and precepts, 
which can protect, and uphold equal rights, and save 
civilization from rank, and greedy despotism on the 
one hand, or dark, and brutal anarchy on the other.’ 
It is only to pure and unadulterated Republicanism, 
with its inexhaustible feast of good things for man, 
to which all true American citizens are invited, that 
they may thereby oppose the poison of anarchy, and 
tormenting despotism on the one side, or the sloughs, 
and morasses of natural and genuine Democracy on 
the other, each of which is equally dangerous to 
equal rights, and well regulated liberty. It is only 
pure and unadulterated Republicanism, with its well 
known principles and practices, that ever has saved 
or ever can save any people from the Scylla of des¬ 
potism on the one hand, and the Charybdis of De¬ 
mocracy on the other hand. 

Thousands of Democrats absurdly compare the 


REPUBLICANISM. 


1 5 


great Democratic Rebellion of this country with the 
American Revolution, and the action of the leaders 
of the Rebellion with the action of the leaders of 
the Revolution. But there is no just ground for 
such comparison, either morally or politically. The 
United States is three thousand miles from Eng¬ 
land, with a then more than two months’ journey 
between them. The colonies were all contiguous 
and without any natural lines of separation. Each 
colony had, as the States have to-day, its regular 
and just quota of representation in the government 
they had set up. The American colonies had no 
representation in the government of Great Britain, 
nor could either country allow or claim, with pro¬ 
priety and safety to themselves, such representation. 
And thus it came to pass that the people of the 
colonies, as equals of the people of Great Britain, 
were morally, politically and geographically bound 
to strike for independence, and a government of 
their own. 

But the rebel States had no sound reason or ne¬ 
cessity for their action, inasmuch as they had a full, 
and unquestioned voice in all that pertained to their 
moral, political, and material interests. Moreover, 
they enjoyed all the benefits, moral, political and 
material, that arise from an equitable, pure, and un¬ 
adulterated Republican form of government. They 
all had the best possible guarantee for equal and 
just rights, and the best possible remedies for griev¬ 
ances that had ever been devised by man with the 


16 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

sanction of Almighty God. All that was needed 
then, and all that is needed now, to secure and main¬ 
tain all the rights and privileges, and all the liberties 
that a Republican government or civilized society 
can safely bestow upon the people, was their lot, and 
inheritance then as now. No party or sect, there¬ 
fore, that ever existed upon the face of the 
earth, would ever have dreamed of a rebellion under 
such circumstances, and against such a government 
but a Democratic party. 

Republicanism, or the pure and unadulterated 
representative form of government, as it stood then, 
and as it stands to-day, with its written constitution, 
its honest ballot, its honest, and faithful count; with 
its honest, and faithful returns, and declaration to the 
world, comprises not only our American political 
decalogue, but our Pentateuch, our New Testament 
and Ark of Safety against corruption and wrong—a 
Democratic party, with its thousands of tricks and 
floods of lies to the contrary ^notwithstanding. A 
Democratic party is a cheat, and a fraud, and an 
alien, or should be counted an alien in this country, 
as it is now in every other country on the face of 
the earth. 

But let us not forget that pure and unadulterated 
Republicanism, with its cognate rules, lessons, and 
appliances, should receive the fealty and support of 
all patriots and lovers of true liberty, and their prayers 
for its perpetuity, and blessings upon all mankind. 

It is known, or ought to be known to every in- * 


REPUBLICANISM. 


17 


telligent person, that under the reign of civilized 
society, and civilized arts and government, millions 
of the human family find comfort and support where 
only hundreds of people in the barbaric state can 
find subsistence, and that of the most miserable 
quality; for God so constructed the world that it 
should yield its most beautiful and valuable products 
only to the intelligent labors of man. Natural and un¬ 
bridled Democracy has its origin and its most conge¬ 
nial field of operations in the barbaric condition, and 
consequently its votaries are always howling against 
healthful, and helpful laws and regulations. Never¬ 
theless, wherever it has been able to seize upon the 
government of civilized society, and its political 
machinery, they always enact more laws than any 
other party or parties. But they are generally of a 
reactionary or jobbing character, which drive or drag 
civilization and civilized arts down to the barbaric, 
and savage state. 

Pure and unadulterated Republicanism sheds forth 
sunshine, and genial showers, which clothe the earth 
with peace, plenty, and prosperity. But natural and 
genuine Democracy comprises the tornadoes and 
cyclones, that tear things up by the roots. It com¬ 
prises the political frosts and floods that sweep to 
destruction whatever civilized man and mild nature 
may have wrought out for the comfort and suste¬ 
nance of all creatures. The word Democracy, as a 
party name or organization, inevitably breeds politi¬ 
cal pestilence and disease, and wars of every kind. 


1 8 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

But pure Republicanism “ tendeth to life ” and 
prosperity. 

A party, whose name implies, in the opinion of a 
majority of its members, license or lawlessness, or 
natural and unbridled liberty, rather than well-regu¬ 
lated liberty; a party, that scruples at no outrage 
upon the ballot to secure success; a party, which can 
always count in its ranks, or as its firm allies, all the 
agrarians, the communists, socialists, anarchists, and 
traitors of the land; a party therefore which contains 
all, or nearly all, the elements which render it very 
difficult to construct or maintain a representative 
form of government, can no more promote the gen¬ 
eral welfare and safety of a nation than a party of 
professed barbarians can promote peace, and har¬ 
mony, or a set of gamblers promote virtue or morality 
among the people. 

As faith in Almighty God and his commandments 
embraces the only true standard and rules of right 
and wrong, of morality and religion—pure, unadul¬ 
terated, and rigid Republicanism embraces the 
only available political standard and rules of human 
liberty and American civilization—peace and safety 
for all. 


CHAPTER III. 


WHAT IS THE TRUE MEANING OF THE WORD 
DEMOCRACY IN ITS PRACTICAL AND POLITICAL 
APPLICATIONS AND USES ? 

According to the dictionary, the word Democracy 
means a government by the people, or in other words 
it means practically a government by the people 
assembled in mass, *as a whole, for the enactment of 
rules or laws, and their enforcement, and for the 
punishment of crime, as often and on such occasions 
as they may be brought together for such a purpose 
by the chiefs, the people co-operating collectively 
with the chiefs as executioners, if such a process may 
be called a government. A natural and genuine form 
of a Democratic government has and can have no 
such thing as a constitution, or a code of fundamental 
laws, as a guide or precedent, for the reason that as 
soon as such a constitution or code of laws is adopted 
and complied with, it ceases to be a natural and gen¬ 
uine Democratic government — that is to say, in the 
opinion of a large majority of the people—inasmucli 
as natural and genuine Democracy, or natural and 
genuine freedom and liberty, means that each man 
has a right to do as he pleases, in all things, on all 
19 


20 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

occasions, until he is compelled by superior force to 
act otherwise. 

Again, a natural and genuine Democratic form of 
government can, by no means, include any very 
large number of people, or a very large territory, 
from the fact that no very large number, say not 
over five or six thousand people, can intelligently and 
successfully consult or act together upon any ques¬ 
tion or measure, as not more than this number can 
possibly hear and understand so as to agree and co¬ 
operate upon any point, but are far more likely to 
fall into confusion, thus leaving the majority to be 
led and controlled in their action by a few of the 
most astute and cunning managers. Such was the 
natural and genuine, Jacobin, Democratic govern¬ 
ment of France, or the natural and genuine, Tam¬ 
many Ring, Democratic government of New York 
in the past, and the most flourishing days of De¬ 
mocracy. 

Again, a natural and genuine Democracy can, by 
no possibility, claim to constitute a civil govern • 
ment for any large number of people with equal 
rights and privileges, such as a nation, a State, a 
large county or a large city, inasmuch as such a 
community requires the adoption of a constitution 
and code of laws that are obnoxious to natural and 
genuine Democracy. And hence, the word De¬ 
mocracy, as a name for a civil government for a 
large community, is a misnomer, or a false and 
wicked pretext to beguile and gratify the most igno- 


THE WORD DEMOCRACY. 


21 


rant and depraved portion of the population and drag 
the entire mass of the community, the most honest 
and virtuous, as well as the most ignorant and de¬ 
praved, into political degradation and slavery, for the 
elevation and reward of the most unscrupulous po¬ 
litical aspirants, which elevation and state of affairs 
have always been found to be worse than the worst 
regular and settled despotism upon the globe. The 
despotism of Russia or Spain may be called a Para¬ 
dise upon earth compared with a natural and gen¬ 
uine Democratic reign. 

Perhaps the best illustration and example in the 
world of natural and genuine Democracy was found 
among the North American Indian tribes, including 
the Tammany tribe, when the Europeans came to 
take possession of this country, and they, including 
the Tammany tribe, have not to this day, discarded 
or abandoned their hatred of constitutional law 
and order, except in cases where they have been 
forced to do so. Democracy is only the Indian 
style of government, if government it may be called, 
which consists in each tribe assembling in mass, 
and assuming in that form all the legislative, judi¬ 
cial and executive functions of the government, 
and then and there to elect or appoint a chief or 
chiefs who are clothed with all the powers of gov¬ 
ernor, legislature, and judges, or of a single despot, 
to do as he pleases, even to the wielding of a club, 
or setting fire to the fuel by which the offenders are 
to be punished. 


2 2 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTV. 

In the selection of the chief, the one who can dis¬ 
play the greatest number of scalps of the enemy, is 
generally entitled to be called ( * Big Indian,” or 
chief for the time being, while, at the same time and 
place, the criminals are brought forward by the 
crowd, and slain or burnt alive, as it was intended 
to have been done by Powhattan with Capt. John 
Smith, when his daughter, Pocahontas, threw her¬ 
self upon Smith, and saved his life. Nor does any 
Democratic party regard or care a fig for a consti¬ 
tution and laws that stand in its way, as the entire 
history of such a party fully demonstrates. 

So far as it can be discovered by observation and 
reading, a Democratic party has been everywhere, 
and in every age, the same in its characteristics and 
instincts. If the people where it exists are barbar¬ 
ous and savage, it holds them in the same con¬ 
dition and with the same propensity to drag 
them down and keep them down from age to 
age and century to century. If it once gets 
a strong foothold upon a civilized community, it pro¬ 
ceeds at once to uproot and destroy as fast as it can 
everything that seems to tower above itself or its 
instincts. Its delight seems to be to demolish and 
overturn all established institutions, and laws, and 
trample under foot all who may have had a hand in 
establishing them. In a word, they aspire to bring 
everything around them and above them to their 
own level. It may, in fact, well be styled a moral 
and political disease, with an appetite like that of a 


THE WORD DEMOCRACY. 


23 


vulture or other beast of prey, which can only be 
gratified when destroying creatures more beautiful 
and interesting than themselves, and if not checked 
or banished from civilized society, will force the 
community where it flourishes, upon the down-grade 
rather than help it climb the up-grade of progress 
and prosperity. 

Such a party is always ready for, and in favor of, 
war of some kind.' If it cannot plunge the country 
into a war with foreign nations, it is always ready to 
foment domestic or civil war. This disposition 
does not arise from a love of military honor or glory, 
nor do these natural and genuine Democrats neigh 
and paw for the field of battle, in which to distin¬ 
guish themselves, but the desire for war comes 
from their inherent passions, appetites and restless 
ambitions, or their love of strife, or desire to see all 
in authority, and all in elevated positions and stand¬ 
ing, all distinguished for their honesty, patriotism, 
and other virtues pulled down, and trampled upon 
by the most ignorant and depraved, or to see the 
most intelligent, moral, and religious portion in con¬ 
flict with each other. Or to state the facts in other 
words, to see the most virtuous and patriotic domi¬ 
nated over by the most unscrupulous and vile dema¬ 
gogues of the land, in the same manner that it was 
done in the heyday of Democracy in France, during 
the reign of Marat, Danton and Robespierre. Or 
the same as was done in this country, under the reign 
of Thomas H. Benton, Martin Van Buren, and 


24 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

W. L. Marcy, when they as natural Democratic lead¬ 
ers with their hosts of Democrats at their heels? 
trampled down, and were almost ready to have John 
Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John 
M. Clayton and even John C. Calhoun put on trial 
and perhaps punished for remonstrating against the 
worse than Roman tyranny and despotism of Gen. 
Jackson in opening the way for robbing the treasury 
of the United States of more than ten million dol¬ 
lars at one swoop, as was done by the removal of the 
deposits from the Bank of the United States, where 
they had been placed in accordance with law, to State 
banks and similar concerns, where the entire amount 
and the entire revenue of the government fell into 
the hands of Democratic thieves and robbers, and 
was lost to the government. 

It may be all right to extol those who have won 
by their prowess and valor reputation in war, 
whether that war or rebellion was just or unjust on 
the part of those who made it, for the reason that 
every community is liable to oppression and wrong 
of some kind from other parties or nations, which 
oppressions and wrongs can only be redressed or 
prevented by warlike resistance. But there are two 
things, nay three things, for which a Democratic 
party is alw lys noticeable, and blamable. First, the 
noise and howl its leaders and organs always raise 
about the legislation, the so-called needles * and 
wicked measures and too many resolutions their 


THE WORD DEMOCRACY. 25 

opponents are passing or proposing to pass, and put 
into operation. 

And secondly, the vast amount of legislation, and 
the immense number of measures for all sorts of 
jobs, they (the Democrats) enact when in power. 
For instance, the one thousand bills passed by the 
last'session of the Georgia Democratic legislature, 
which is far ahead of anything of the kind in the 
history of any Whig or Republican legislature in 
any State of the same size. 

Nay, there is a third characteristic of the Dem¬ 
ocratic party of this country, which should be men¬ 
tioned. Out of all the great measures and political 
policies from which, and upon which the growth, 
the progress and prosperity of the United States 
have arisen, not one probably has ever received the 
approval of this same Democratic party, or of the 
factions from which it sprung, from the days of the 
revolutionary war down to the present time, which 
measures they have, in almost every instance, fought 
to the bitter end, and in too many instances, have 
overthrown, to the great damage and distress of the 
entire people, and thereby paved the way and stim° 
ulated the rank and file of their party to embark in 
the mad scheme of the great Democratic rebellion, 
which consumed billions of capital and consigned 
a million young men, the flower of the land, to un¬ 
timely graves. 

These things, these shortcomings and crimes 
comprise the legacy which this party has be- 


26 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 


queathed to this generation. And here the question 
arises, Can the people of this country survive an¬ 
other such legacy, another such a reign of death 
and destruction ? If it cannot and ought not to 
stand it, then this party ought to be and must be 
cast out and cast down, as were the rebel angels 
when they made war upon the republic of heaven. 

When almost any one wishes to show up the 
utter want of principle in, and the hypocrisy of, the 
Democratic party, he almost always refers to the 
fact that in 1872 the party nominated for its candi¬ 
date for the presidency Horace Greely, the man 
who had given them more hard knocks and had 
done more to expose their treasonable and revolu¬ 
tionary schemes than any other then living man. 
Now, all must admit that this action of the Democ¬ 
racy placed the stamp of condemnation upon all the 
past history of the party in this country, at least so 
far as all the leaders were concerned. But it was 
the hope of the loaves and fishes, or,‘as Mr. Cal¬ 
houn called it, “public plunder,” that gave rise to 
this action on the part of the leaders. But if there 
is any other great leading act or measure that the 
Democratic parly of this country has ever adopted 
which ever did bring, or ever promised to bring 
any benefit to this country and to mankind, history 
has signally failed to make any note of it. 

How long, oh, how long, can the American peo¬ 
ple endure a political party whose history presents 
nothing but a record of wrongs, outrages and cruel 
warfare against the most valuable and dearest rights 
and privileges of civilized society ? 


CHAPTER IV. 


SOME OF THE VIRTUES AND THE VICES OF LOCAL 

DEMOCRACY-DEMOCRACY ALWAYS DANGEROUS. 

It is not the aim or intention of these chapters 
to blame any honest citizen for belonging to or act¬ 
ing with a Democratic party, however vicious and 
dangerous that party may be to civil liberty and 
constitutional government, but to persuade them, if 
possible, to abandon such a party and join them¬ 
selves to such an organization as may contain the 
elements and principles of safety to all, or stand 
aloof from all parties, and act independently of all 
on all occasions when a non-action is demanded. 
Political party organizations and influence, although 
sometimes absolutely necessary, are not altogether 
unlike a healthy or unhealthy, atmosphere which 
surrounds us. If we happen to be in a district 
where the air is always charged with malaria, it is 
our duty to move to a locality where it is more 
salubrious. The chief object of these pages, there¬ 
fore, is to induce our fellow citizens to move from 
or abandon a political atmosphere where charged 
with deadly vapors and seeds of destruction, to an 
atmosphere where our health and our best interest 
and safety as citizens are secure. There is nothing 
wrong in such persuasion or advice as this. 

27 


2 S CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

Let us, therefore, for a moment inquire what 
may have been honest motives in adhering to a 
Democratic party, and then more fully inquire into 
the viciousness and dangers arising from such a 
party and such a party name. 

In New England all or nearly all the country 
towns and villages have a..sort of Democratic style 
of government, which is, of course, limited as to 
number and the powers they exercise; that is to 
say, the legislatures of those States, all of which are 
Republican in form, provide by law for the people 
of those towns and villages to assemble in mass, 
choose selectmen, road and school commissioners, 
constables, a clerk and treasurer, and they are 
authorized also by the legislatures to levy taxes for 
education, roads and other purposes, thus imitating 
to that extent, and no further, a natural Democratic 
government, if such action may be called Demo¬ 
cratic, where everything is in accordance with writ¬ 
ten constitution and laws previously enacted by higher 
authority. But so far as is generally known, with 
all the bragging and howling about “ time- honored 
and glorious Democratic principles,” they, the people 
of New England, or the Democrats thereof, never 
have attempted to put Democracy into practical 
operation further than as above stated, unless, in¬ 
deed, it was attempted under the leadership of one 
Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire, in the' heyday of 
Benton and Jackson Democracy, or unless it was 
under the leadership of Gov. Garcelon, in the State 


VIRTUES AND VICKS OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY. 2p 

of Maine, a few years ago, when, in the regular and 
Democratic style, he and his followers having been 
beaten at the polls, seized upon the legislative halls, 
but from which they were adroitly ousted by the 
Republican majority, without bloodshed. The 
action of these Maine Democrats was something 
after the style of Southern Democrats, who forced 
some of their State governments with pistols and 
daggers in hand to declare their States out of the 
Union and in a state of rebellion against the gec-ial 
government. 

Nevertheless and notwithstanding the conserva¬ 
tive character of the Ne w England people as a whole, 
the natural Democrats there howl as loud and blow 
as hard about “the time honored and glorious Demo¬ 
cratic principles” as do Democrats in other parts of 
the land; yet they are as deficient as others when 
attempting to define or point out in what “the glo¬ 
rious principles of Democracy” consist, unless it is to 
uproot and destroy the measures and policies which 
good and patriotic men have established for the benefit 
and safety of all, or to plunge the people into civil 
war. 

In the second place, the question arises, if a 
Democratic party or a political organization of the 
Democratic element is so dangerous to good govern¬ 
ment and well regulated liberty, why do so many 
intelligent and respectable people join or co-operate 
with it? The answer is, there are many who verily 
believe there is something good in the name of 


30 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

Democracy, and seeing their friends going that way, 
go with them, without investigation or reflection, 
and because they see the party under the leadership 
of men from whom they think they have reason to 
expect good service, and patriotic action, and be¬ 
cause it is hard for any one to withdraw from any 
party or denomination with which he and his friends 
have been long associated, - and because too many 
intelligent men are inclined to join the most noisy 
and boisterous crowd, simply because they are noisy 
and boisterous. These views account for numbers 
that join the Democratic party, and also in part 
account for the vicious and dangerous character of 
the party, while they condone the worst crimes 
of the party to which they belong, and with which 
they have long been associated. 

In the third place, about one third of the people 
under a representative form of government are 
always on the lookout for political places of honor 
and profit, and in such a pursuit, they are too apt 
to entirely lose sight of their country’s needs, and 
the dangers arising from the party’s characteristics 
and history. 

In the fourth place, it should be mentioned that 
thousands of old Whigs at the South were forced by 
stress of circumstances, as they thought and still 
think, arising from the great Democratic Rebellion, 
into the Democratic party, where they have always 
felt like a stranger in a strange iand, or like mari¬ 
ners upon a raft far out at sea, without a compass 


VIRTUES AND VICES OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY. 3 I 

or reckoning, all of which causes have operated 
and still operate, to keep up the ranks of a Demo¬ 
cratic party in our country. But who does not 
know that these old Whigs and their descendants 
generally despise as heartily the Democratic party 
as do the Republicans. 

And here it should be mentioned as evidence of 
the viciousness and dangerous characteristics of the 
party, that at the close of the great Rebellion thousands 
upon thousands of Democrats were in favor of dis¬ 
banding the party, or changing its name, and that 
these propositions were overruled by the most rabid 
members, knowing as they did, that under the name 
of Democracy only could they keep up a semi-war¬ 
fare against the general government and thus be 
ever ready for another open rebellion. 

The recent outrages committed by the Democracy 
at the municipal election in Chicago, in 1891, are 
characteristic of the party and its viciousness wher¬ 
ever it has numbers and strength sufficient to make 
an assault upon the fundamental principles of a rep¬ 
resentative government, or upon the citizens. In 
1884, when it was rumored that Grover Cleveland 
had been defeated in the presidential election by that 
great patriot and statesman, James G. Blaine, a 
crowd, so the newspapers of the day informed- us, of 
seventy-five thousand men was assembled in the 
upper part of New York City, which was organized 
into a mob, and went rushing down Broadway, howl¬ 
ing: “Death to Jay Gould,” and but for the fact, as 



32 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

the newspapers of the day also informed us, that 
Gould had suddenly placarded the streets, saying 
that he was a Democrat, the reasonable conclusion 
was that his financial office would have been sacked, 
and his cart-loads of stocks, bonds, and money would 
have fallen into the clutches of the mob, and himself 
would have been torn to pieces, had he not gotten 
out of its way. 

Now, when we reflect that during the thirt} 7 years 
previous to the great Rebellion nearly all the leaders 
and organs of the Democracy, north and south, east 
and west, with the New York Herald at their head, 
did “nothing else,” or next to nothing else, in the 
political line, but to pour calumny and denunciation 
upon the patriots who were laboring day and night 
to save the Constitution and the government from 
wreck and ruin; and when we reflect, also, that this 
Democratic calumny and denunciation were kept up 
during and since the Rebellion at the North and 
West, as well as at the South, against these men and 
the government, and when we reflect also that a vast 
multitude of the ignorant and depraved foreign ele¬ 
ment fall into the Democratic party, it is not strange, 
we may say, that such outrages against the ballot- 
box and its necessary declarations, and against the 
rights and safety of citizens, should take place; and 
when we remember that a great Democratic mob 
took place in the city of New York, in the awful 
crisis of 1863, which ruled and disgraced that city 
for three' days, with plunder and slaughter, in spite 


VIRTUES AND VICES OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY. 33 

of the State and general government, and all with the 
expectation of overthrowing the Constitution and 
government of the United States, it is not strange* 
we repeat, that such a vast organization of the 
natural and genuine Democrats of the country, ani¬ 
mated by, and at the beck and call of, its leaders* 
should ever be ready, at a moment’s notice, to brush 
aside the Constitution and laws, for scenes of anarchy 
and ruin. 

In looking back to the origin and working up of 
the great Democratic Rebellion, it is hard for honest 
patriots to avoid the conclusion that northern and 
western Democratic leaders and organs were as 
much to blame for its occurrence and continuance 
through four years of blood and slaughter as the 
political leaders and organs of the South, and that a 
Democratic party is the most malignant and danger¬ 
ous organization against equal rights and well-regu¬ 
lated liberty ever seen or heard of on the face of 
the earth. 

But let us return for a moment to the good works 
and virtues for which the party claims credit. It is 
claimed, and probably with some show of consist¬ 
ency, that in the state, county, and some other local 
governments, Democratic partisans are as true to 
the needs of the people as other partisans, and may* 
therefore, legislate and govern equally well. But 
be this as it may, it should be borne in mind that in 
all local and municipal governments, except in large 

3 



34 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

cities, the people generally understand the needs of 
all, and differ more as to the mode of legislation and 
form of government than as to the design and 
objects to be accomplished. The reasons for this 
concurrence and uniformity on the part of all, come 
mainly from the fact that nine-tenths of all the local 
interests and objects to be accomplished spring from 
the customs and common laws inherited from our 
ancestors, and the constitution and laws of the United 
States, thus leaving but little scope for innovations 
or difference in practice in our local affairs. 

But when we proceed to discuss and act upon 
questions and policies beyond the scope of our local 
organizations, and launch upon the domain of politi¬ 
cal supremacy, or political “ sovereignty,” as Demo¬ 
crats choose to call it, then the political demagogues, 
and the ambitious aspirants, begin to disport them¬ 
selves, and make everything misty and ridiculously 
sublime before the eyes of their countrymen. They 
then show themselves like whales and porpoises in 
the ocean, plunging up and down, blowing and 
snorting, filling the air with fog and smoke. The}' 
there exhort their followers to believe that all sov¬ 
ereignty is found in each man’s cranium, and that 
they, the leaders, are only their humble servants, to 
guide them in the overthrow of their oppressors. It 
is thus the Democratic leaders stimulate their fol¬ 
lowers to assail with violence, if need be, and espe¬ 
cially at the ballot-boxes, every one that does not 
acknowledge the sovereignty of “ the time-honored 


VIRTUES AND VICES OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY. 35 

and glorious principles of Democracy,” which “prin¬ 
ciples,” by the way, as everybody now knows, con¬ 
sist in uprooting and overthrowing all that has been 
accomplished by patriotic statesmen, and patriotic 
labors. 

“Do you say,” says a genuine Democrat, “that 
a Democratic party affords no honest and able 
statesmen?” No, by no means, but we do say that 
such is the ignorance and depravity of a large ma¬ 
jority of a Democratic party, that the most unscru¬ 
pulous aspirants for place are generally able by 
appeals to the lower ranks to have their best men 
set aside, and themselves crowned as leaders, who 
in fact have no ability for building up, but a thirst 
for uprooting and tearing down, what has been con¬ 
structed, and thus it comes to pass that we have in 
the history of Democracy not a single Democratic 
statesman or political benefactor of mankind, unless, 
indeed, such tyrants as Pisistratus, Olisthenes and 
Pericles of ancient Greece, Marat, Danton, Robes¬ 
pierre and Bonaparte of France, and Jackson, Ben¬ 
ton and Buchanan of the United States, were states¬ 
men and political benefactors, all of whom were 
genuine products of natural and genuine Democracy. 

Moreover, if any Democratic party, when in pos¬ 
session of supreme power, did not make it its chief 
business to tear down and destroy such policies and 
measures as their predecessors may have built up 
and established, and also to plunge the people into 
domestic and foreign wars, then they have been 
greatly misrepresented in history. 


CHAPTER V. 


WHO, AND WHAT PARTY, OR PARTIES, PERSONS AND 
INTERESTS SOWED THE SEEDS, AND WORKED UP 
THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION ? 

In a discussion like this the question naturally and 
nlrrost irresistibly arises, who, and what party, or 
pai ties, and what interests sowed the seeds and 
wrrked up the great American Rebellion, that cost 
the American people billions of wealth, and a million 
young men, the flower of the land? 

Was it the people of the eleven seceding States 
as a whole? No, by no means, for after more than 
thirty years of agitation by the Democratic leaders 
and organs of the North, the South, the East, and 
the West, with this object or result staring them in 
the face, less than one-third of the voters of the 
eleven seceding States could be induced to declare 
for the Rebellion, and we may reasonably infer that 
if the question of war and bloodshed had been fairly 
put before them, not one-fourth of the people would 
have voted for it. That the northern and west¬ 
ern Democratic leaders and organs were as much 
responsible for the starting of the great Rebellion 
;:s the leaders and organs of the South, was shown 
by the violence and bitterness of language with 
36 


THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION. 37 

which they opposed the suppression of the Rebel¬ 
lion. If then all these were the facts in the case, 
it was not the people of the eleven Southern States 
as a whole and alone that sowed the seeds and 
worked up the great Rebellion. 

Was it slavery, or the owners of slaves in the 
South that sowed the seeds and created this destruc¬ 
tive warfare? No, by no means, for the whole 
number of slave owners was not much over 300,000, 
and as everybody knows, or ought to know, more 
than one*half and probably two-thirds of them 
were opposed to any such a measure as an armed 
rebellion. It was not therefore the slave owners 
that sowed the seeds or worked up the great Rebel¬ 
lion. 

Was it the abolitionists of the North and West 
that sowed the seeds and raised the Rebellion? By 
no means, for they were too few to undertake such 
a job, and besides not one out of ten dreamed of, or 
wished for, a civil war on account of slavery. They 
regarded the people of the slave States as a set of 
braggarts, on the same principle and with about as 
much sense as the leading Democrats and organs of 
the South regarded the Northern people as a set of 
cowards, when in fact their talk on either side had 
in it scarcely a semblance of truth. Hence it was 
not the abolitionists that did this work. 

Was it the people of the North and West as a 
whole that desired and worked up the Rebellion? 
No, by no means, for their best and bravest men 


38 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

went upon their knees and begged the southern 
Democratic leaders to refrain from such a move¬ 
ment, and even Abraham Lincoln, after he had been 
elected President of the United States pled with 
the Democratic leaders, and promised them all they 
could reasonably ask, if they would but desist from 
their mad and crazy scheme. 

The foundation for the great Rebellion was laid 
during the incipient years of the Democratic party, 
commencing about 1830. Or to speak more em¬ 
phatically, during the Jackson, Van Buren, and 
Benton Democratic reign of financial ruin and disas¬ 
ter. But to speak more definitely, as soon as the 
Democracy gained supreme power and control of 
the government, which it did in about the year 1830, 
a few natural and genuine Democrats, such as are 
found in all civilized communities, men we may 
say of shrewdness and skill in politics, men of am¬ 
bition and unscrupulous designs, seeing and under¬ 
standing the anarchical and revolutionary character¬ 
istics and proclivities of a Democratic party, con¬ 
ceived the idea of overturning and destroying the 
Constitution and government of the country. And 
having once entertained such ideas, nothing could 
be more natural to them than to co-operate in 
strengthening a Democratic party, and to connive 
at, if not employ, all the hypocritical and lying tac¬ 
tics, natural to, and inseparable from, a Democratic 
organization. 

The first alarming and threatening scheme of this 



THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION. 


39 


kind was shown in the Nullification movement in 
South Carolina, which was nipped in its bud by the 
Anti-Nullification proclamation of President Jackson, 
claimed to have been written by Daniel Webster. 

But to demonstrate more clearly that it was solely 
and exclusively the Democratic organization and 
name, or rather its leaders and organs, that sowed 
the seeds and worked up the Rebellion, and that 
slavery was only a pretext used by the Democratic 
leaders, north and south, east and west, let us sub¬ 
mit a few more well-known facts: At the head of 
these organs, with more influence and power for the 
work than all the southern papers combined, stood 
the New York Herald , as a fit type and mouth-piece 
of “ the angel of the bottomless pit.” 

But not to dwell on the right or wrong of slavery 
further than to illustrate the facts as to who sowed 
the seeds, and worked up the Rebellion, let us go 
back to the fathers. Who does not know that Wash¬ 
ington, Thomas Jefferson, the Masons, the Ran¬ 
dolphs, and the Pinckneys and Rutledges of South 
Carolina, were strongly in favor of doing away with 
slavery in our county? Who does not know that all 
the members of the Federal convention which framed 
the Constitution, except two or three, were imbued 
with the same sentiments? Who does not know that 
from the Revolutionary war up to as late as 1820, 
emancipation societies were common throughout the 
South, at the head of which stood the Colonization 
Society, with Southern men as its leaders and offi- 


40 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

cers? Who does not know that up to as late as 1830 
Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky, and perhaps 
some other States, were looking forward to the 
emancipation of their slaves by State or National 
authority? Who does not know that no one, except, 
perhaps a few fanatical abolitionists, was in favor of 
emancipating the slaves without pay for them from 
the general government, the same as was done by 
the British government for their slaves when eman¬ 
cipated in their West India colonies? And who does 
not know that no other party that ever existed on 
the face of the earth would have dreamed of making 
war upon such a question, on such a pretext, until 
they had tried all peaceful measures, and had failed 
to get redress, if due, from their government? Or 
who does not know that none but an anarchical and 
revolutionary party, with anarchical and revolution¬ 
ary leaders, could have been tempted to make war 
upon their countrymen under such circumstances as 
existed? 

But there are other historical facts and events 
which go far to prove that the slavery question was 
.seized upon by the Democratic anarchical and revo¬ 
lutionary leaders as a pretext for rebellion only, 
when all other questions or pretexts had been ex¬ 
hausted, or had proved to be inefficient in firing up 
the rank and file of the party, and that but for the 
existence of a Democratic party, no such a pretext 
or subject would ever have been seized upon as a 
cause for a rebellion, and no such a rebellion ever 



THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION. 


4 1 

could have been put on foot but for the existence of 
such a party. 

It may be mentioned further that the old Federal 
Congress adopted in 1787 the latitude of 36 degrees 
and 30 minutes as the dividing line between free and 
slavery territory; and secondly in framing the Con¬ 
stitution of the United States, the Federal conven¬ 
tion of the same year refrained from using the word 
slave or slavery, and provided in that great instru¬ 
ment “that the importation of persons held to ser¬ 
vice should cease after 1808,” which Constitution 
was adopted by the people in 1789, thus confirming 
all that had been done, and the sentiments and con¬ 
victions of the fathers of the republic upon the ques¬ 
tion of slavery. 

Thirdly, it was not until 1820 on the occasion of 
the admission of Missouri as a State, whose terri¬ 
tory lay two-thirds north and one-third south of 36 
degrees 30 minutes latitude, that any controversy 
arose in the Congress about slavery, but which con¬ 
troversy was settled by the admission of Missouri 
as a slave State, and the further confirmation of the 
line of division west of Missouri. But here let it be 
said and remembered that there was no organized 
Democratic party at that time, and hence we may 
say the question of slavery, and of free and slave 
territory became quiet among the people for the 
next fifteen years, from 1820, thus demon¬ 
strating that the people of the country as a whole, 
both North and South, were adverse to further 


42 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

agitation of the subject. And as farther proof 
of this state of sentiment and feelings, in less 
than two years after the Democratic party had come 
into power, as it did in about 1830, the anarchical 
and revolutionary scheme of nullification was 
hatched on the pretext of an oppressive tariff, at ihe 
same time ignoring as it did the question of slavery. 
Thus demonstrating that it was not then considered 
by the party as a suitable pretext for a revolution. 
But having had the nullification scheme nipped in the 
bud, as it was by the anti-nullification proclamation 
of President Jackson written by that great states¬ 
man and patriot Daniel Webster, and having ex¬ 
hausted all other pretexts for a revolution, the party 
seized upon slavery, and elevated it, or attempted 
to elevate it, into a divine institution. 

It was therefore upon this question, upon the 
question of free and slave territory, that the leaders 
and organs of the p'arty, after twenty-five years of 
agitation, were enabled to fire up the rank and file 
of the party to the revolutionary and fighting pitch, 
thus demonstrating to mankind that a Democratic 
party is always ready for anarchy or revolution* 
eithe** with or without a suitable pretext or cause, 
thus partially proving that the existence of a Dem¬ 
ocratic party contained and wielded the only cause, 
origin and elements of the great Rebellion. 

It may and perhaps should be here remarked by 
way of apology for the great and good men often 
found in a Democratic party, that they are not the 


THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION. 


43 


men who first lead or initiate all sorts of excesses 
and crimes, but that its evil and cruel conduct arises 
from the over proportion of ignorance and depravity- 
in the party, and the facility with which second and 
third-rate men, unscrupulous and over-ambitious 
men, men without statesmanship or care for the pub- 
tic weal, have themselves elevated into positions of 
influence, and thereby compel their best men to fall 
in with their theories and plots or retire from the 
stage of action. 

But to conclude this chapter, it is both pertinent 
and relevant to this question, as to who sowed the 
seeds and worked up the great Rebellion, to say that 
the adoption and employment of pro-slavery senti¬ 
ments as a pretext or cause of the great Rebellion 
by the party and party name which claims and always 
has claimed to embody all the freedom, liberty* 
equal rights and privileges due to mankind and civ¬ 
ilized society, and then at the same time, and as it 
were in the same breath, adopts as “it corner-stone,” 
or pretext for a war, the slavery of a portion of man¬ 
kind, presents to the intelligent world the most con¬ 
summate and audacious example of hyprocrisy and 
moral and political depravity ever contemplated, 
and affords proof positive that none but a natural, 
Democratic, anarchical, and revolutionary party, 
could have presented such a spectacle to the modern 
world, and presents further proof that the great 
American Rebellion sprung wholly and exclusively 
from the Democratic party, or, if you please from 
the leaders, which such a party always engenders. 



CHAPTER VI. 


FACTS AND DEDUCTIONS FROM THE DEMOCRACY OF 
ANCIENT GREECE. ITS FLUCTUATIONS BETWEEN 
ANARCHY AND DESPOTISM. DESPOTISM THE MAIN 
FEATURE, AND CAUSE OF SUCCESS. THE FINAL 
WRECK AND RUIN WHICH THE TWO PRINCIPLES 
ACTING ALTERNATELY BROUGHT UPON THE MOST 
FAVORED AND BRILLIANT PEOPLE OF ANCIENT 
TIMES. 

We are informed in history that at an early period 
the Roman nation sent an embassy to Athens to ob¬ 
tain a copy of the Athenian form of government to 
be adopted in Rome, and that this form became in the 
main the foundation of the Roman republic, which 
lasted and flourished as a republic six or seven hun¬ 
dred years. But this action, this borrowed form of 
government, took place long before the Athenian re¬ 
public was changed into a Democracy, and long be¬ 
fore the revolutions and horrible tragedies that befell 
Greece, and which ultimately ended in the utter 
overthrow of the Greeks as a nation and people. 

Seven years ago the author of these chapters 
published a volume of 227 pages, in which were 
narrated many of the wrongs and outrages com¬ 
mitted by a Democratic party in ancient Greece, in 

44 


DEMOCRACY OF ANCIENT GREECE. 


45 - 


modern France, and in this country. These are- 
the only civilized countries where such an organi¬ 
zation with such a name has ever been allowed 
to gain supreme political power. And as the his¬ 
tory of such a party has always bristled with little 
or nothing but wrongs and crimes, it seems to be a 
duty to give some further account of its true charac¬ 
teristics and the horrible results that have always fol¬ 
lowed its possession of political power. Indeed a 
more complete expose than has yet appeared of its 
outrages and crimes is due to the best interests and 
welfare of constitutional government, and mankind 
everywhere. 

Notwithstanding the loud professions and boast¬ 
ing of such a party as if comprising all the liberty 
and equal rights found in the world, all people out¬ 
side of its ranks regard it as a party of anarchy 
despotism, and crimes. And what should here be 
repeated is the fact that such a party has ever been 
the advocate and unwavering supporter of slavery 
in its most cruel and oppressive forms, and that in 
no case has such'a party ever contributed to the 
growth and prosperity of any people, unless it came 
through a despotism, to which such a party always 
leads, as was emphatically the case under its reign 
in ancient Greece, as we shall presently see. 

The United States is now the only country in the 
world where Democracy is allowed as a party name 
and political organization. Nor has any such party 
ever had outside of its own membership any char- 



4 6 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

acter or reputation for morality, patriotism or states¬ 
manship, except when found in the despotism it 
always generates. The intelligent and moral por¬ 
tion of mankind have, everywhere and on all oc¬ 
casions, regarded it as a scourge to mankind rather 
than a blessing. The reason of this, as heretofore 
explained, is that nearly one-half oj. the human 
family are natural anarchists and revolutionists in 
disposition, nearly all of which class drift into a 
Democratic party where one is formed, and are ever 
ready to follow the most unscrupulous and reckless 
leaders instead of their best men. The good 
people of the community outside of such a party, 
therefore, who wish and are ever willing to toil and 
suffer for good government, knowing all this, 
heartily condemn and despise the Democratic party 
and Democratic ways, knowing as they do that 
Democrats are opposed to all restraints necessary to 
good government, precisely as it was during the 
Trench revolution, when the ignorant and depraved 
portion of the people followed Marat, Danton and 
Robespierre into the most horrible cruelties, and as it 
was in this country, until the party culminated in the 
great Rebellion. This, too, was emphatically the 
result of the Democracy in ancient Athens, until 
the general assembly of five thousand was estab¬ 
lished, and until Pisistratus was accepted as a 
despot and tyrant, which was done after twenty 
years of Democratic anarchy. This despotism 
lasted fifty years as a legitimate fruit of Democracy, 


DEMOCRACY OF ANC 1 EKT GREECE. 47 

It is a part, and a very important part, of the 
history of Democracy in this country that when 
Benton proposed the word Democracy as the name 
of the Jackson party, many of the old Jeffersonian 
Republicans, and many of those, who called them¬ 
selves Jackson men, looked upon the word as a 
party name as a “Trojan horse,” full of armed 
men, ready to come forth, and cut off the political 
heads of many who had helped to lift Jackson into 
power, and which, by the way, may have been an 
important part of Benton’s scheme in pressing the 
word as a party name. It was only in fact after 
several years had elapsed, and Benton had shown 
himself to be an apt and unscrupulous leader, and 
had fired up the lower strata, the ignorant and de¬ 
praved portion of the people to a spirit of revolu¬ 
tion and plunder, that the old Republicans and 
Jackson men were compelled to consent to the new 
name. And why should it not have been so ? 
Thousands upon thousands of the old Republican 
party had been witnesses of the Democratic factions 
which had given vast trouble and anxiety to the 
patriots all through the Revolutionary war, and, 
indeed during the eleven or twelve years, which 
elapsed from the close of the war to the adoption 
of the Constitution. For the truth is these Demo¬ 
cratic factions and Democratic leaders had dragged 
the people and the States down to the very verge 
of anarchy and barbarism. And indeed this word 
and this name had at the time of the adoption of 


48 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

the Constitution become almost a synonym for polit¬ 
ical mobs, outrages and crimes. Nor do the oppo¬ 
nents of Democracy embrace all that dislike and de¬ 
spise the Democratic party of to-day. For there are 
thousands upon thousands who, from various motives 
and causes, imagine that their immediate interests 
compel them to act with the party against their 
best judgment. Among them are thousands of old 
Whigs and their descendants who as heartily con¬ 
temn and despise the name as do the rank and file 
of its outspoken opponents.* 

The reign of Democracy in ancient Greece was a 
two-fold or a double-barreled affair. One barrel 
was always charged with anarchy and revolution, 
and the other with overpowering despotism. The 
rank and file of the party comprising the revolution¬ 
ary ammunition, and the leader and orator who could 
capture and carry with him the general assembly 
of five thousand, comprised the despotic ammuni¬ 
tion to whom all gave implicit obedience, and absolute 
power to do as he pleased when a majority of votes 
was passed in his favor, or at least until some more 

*When Benton, on one occasion, had been haranguing the peo¬ 
ple from the stump, he spoke, as he often did, about the mean¬ 
ing of the word Democracy in Greek. A western Hoosier, who 
had been listening, said Benton was half right and half wrong, 
for he said truly the word demo or demon meant in Greek, the 
same as Democrats or Democracy. But when he said the Whigs 
were all aristocrats, he lied, as they were nearly all Christians. 
Therefore the two parties should be called Christocrats and 
devilcrats. 



DEMOCRACY OF ANCIENT GREECE. 


49 


adroit and captivating leader and orator could gain 
control of the general assembly of five thousand T 
and get a majority of votes in favor of himself or 
his policy. Or it may be said with historical truth 
that such a leader while in power acted as the fifth 
wheel of a coach, or the controlling power of the 
entire political machinery, leading andjguiding every 
thing as he pleased. Thus it was that the great 
leaders, Pisistratus and Pericles, whose absolute rule 
occupied, the one and his descendants fifty years, 
and the other forty years, making fully one-half the 
time of the entire existence of the Greek Democracy 
under despotic rule. The other half of its existence 
was passed mainly, as history informs us, in a con¬ 
dition of anarchy and confusion, until the entire 
Greek nationality was swallowed up by Philip and 
his son, Alexander of Macedon. 

Among the first political exploits of this ancient 
Democracy, after it had obtained full control, was 
the establishment of the ostracism, as a means of 
removing out of their way all statesmen or leaders 
who would not prostitute themselves for the gratifi¬ 
cation of Democratic greed for office and spoils. 
This institution consisted in the preparation and 
guardianship of an urn or vase as a ballot-box into 
which votes were cast against any obnoxious or un¬ 
popular statesman. When six thousand votes were 
therein found against any one, he was compelled to 
leave his country or be put to death. Under this 


50 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

law, Themistocles, Miltiades, and even Aristides,, 
the Just, all of them heroes in the battles against 
the Persian invaders, were banished, thus demon¬ 
strating that the ruling disposition of a Democratic 
party always has been to break down and trample 
under foot all great statesmen and benefactors of 
their country, as well as all great and beneficial 
measures and policies. It was the same disposition 
which broke down and drove from power and influ¬ 
ence such men as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and 
John C. Calhoun, and also the great measures and 
policies of the fathers of the country, which they 
sought to maintain, and whom the Democratic party, 
under the leadership of Thomas H. Benton, tried 
and condemned in the Senate of the United States 
for their fidelity to the measures and policies of the 
fathers, by means of “ the Expunging Resolutions,” 
adopted in the year 1837, by Democratic senators. 

? The next great exploit in statesmanship of the 
Greek Democracy consisted in the abolition of the 
ballot-box, and the substitution of the lottery-box for 
the selection of legislators and other officers of the 
State. An account of this gambling and crazy measure 
is fully described in the history of Greece by George 
Grote, and more fully referred to in “ The History of 
Democraqy as a Party Name,” by the author of 
these chapters. This exploit in statesmanship thus 
set in operation by that ancient Democratic party, 
and among the then most highly civilized and eiv 
lightened people in ancient times,forcibly illustrates— 


DEMOCRACY OF ANCIENT GREECE. 


51 


First, that the abolishment of the ballot-box, 
and the substitution of the lottery-box by the 
ancient Greek Democrats, among the most civilized 
and enlightened people of ancient times, in con¬ 
nection with the ostracism already established, 
demonstrate, beyond a doubt, the anarchical and 
revolutionary character of such a party, and its 
utter want of efficiency in the moral, intellectual and 
political principles and practices, such as are essential 
to the establishment and maintenance of a civil 
government and civilized institutions, except by 
means of an absolute despot. 

Secondly, that the lottery-box plan or method for 
the selection of legislators and civil rulers, instead of 
the ballot-box plan or method, in connection with 
the ostracism already established, exhibits in forcible 
colors the character and operations of a Democratic 
pa*ty, comprised mainly, as such a party always is* 
of the most ignorant and depraved portion of the 
people, and led, as it almost always is, by the most 
ambitious and unscrupulous men in the party; and 
demonstrates beyond a doubt the unfitness and the 
want of capacity in such a party to establish and 
maintain a free and republican form of government* 
as well as the disposition and position such a party 
always exhibits for the overthrow and defeat of the 
most virtuous and patriotic leaders. 

Thirdly, these two great exploits in statesman¬ 
ship by the ancient Greek Democrats among the 
most highly civilized people in the world, in con- 


52 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

nection and in comparison with the Democratic party 
of France and the Democratic party of the United 
States, these being the only Democratic parties that 
ever gained supreme national power, and these two 
latter parties having proved themselves to have been 
the most cruel and bloodthirsty parties that ever 
held power in either country, demonstrate, if any¬ 
thing can demonstrate, that the people of this coun¬ 
try must overthrow and destroy the Democratic 
party of this country, or it will overthrow and 
destroy this our great American government and 
civilization, as the Greek Democratic party over¬ 
threw and destroyed Greek institutions and Greek 
civilization. 

Democracy in Greece has been more elaborately 
explained in chapters two to s^ven in “ The History 
of Democracy,” etc., by the author. 


CHAPTER VII. 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. THE PART IT PLAYED IN 
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. CONCLUSION. 

Probably the French revolution of 1789 and the 
French nation presented the best opportunity since 
the days of ancient Greece for natural and genuine 
Democracy to benefit and improve the government 
of the State, if it had any disposition or capacity for 
such work. And that it also presented the best 
opportunity since the times of ancient Greece, for a 
natural and genuine Democratic party to bring 
wreck and ruin upon the people thereof cannot be 
disputed. 

Let us see which side and which direction the 
Democracy of France took on that occasion, and 
what they accomplished, until the work of wreck 
and ruin had landed the French people into the arms 
of an absolute and cruel despot. And we may say, 
until it had taken that people from a condition of 
wealth and prosperity, and reduced them to a con¬ 
dition of poverty, degradation and desolation. 

Doubtless American writers, with a desire to 
apologize for, and justify to some extent, the outrages 
and crimes of the French Democracy, have repre¬ 
sented the French people as being very low in civi- 
53 


54 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

lization, arts and intelligence at that time. But the 
facts of history show that, during the previous cen¬ 
tury they had enjoyed the influence and benefits of 
the most brilliant galaxy of writers, statesmen, and 
moralists that had ever adorned any country in 
modern Europe. Among these writers wereFene- 
lon, Buffon, Pascal, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and 
a host of other male and female writers and philan¬ 
thropists, to say nothing of Mirabeau and other 
great orators and politicians. The people also had 
been supplied with magazines, pamphlets and news¬ 
papers for their enlightenment. During that cen¬ 
tury many common schools and other literary and 
scientific institutions had been established through¬ 
out France, and we are informed that the hereditary 
aristocracy and the mercantile and manufacturing 
classes, called the “ci-devant” aristocracy, vied with 
one another in fostering educational and other 
benevolent enterprises for the benefit of the common 
people. 

It is true that during these times several wars had 
taken place between France and Great Britain, and 
France had lost the cohtrol of the Canadas and her 
East India possessions, but during these times the 
American revolution had taken place, and through 
the assistance of France, with her soldiers and 
sailors, and with her D’Estang, her LaFayette, her 
Rochambeau, and her Count De Grasse, our inde¬ 
pendence had been gained and established. Dr. 
Benjamin Franklin had long resided in France as 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


55 


American ambassador, whose person was almost 
worshipped, and whose words were counted as 
oracles by the French people. All these influences 
helped to educate the people in the principles of well 
regulated liberty, and but for the organization of a 
natural and genuine Democratic party among them, 
there can be no possible reason given why their 
great assembly, containing a host of wise andpatrioflc 
statesmen, should not have formed a constitution and 
a republican form of government somewhat after 
the style and character of the present French Re¬ 
public, formed and established after a struggle and 
conflicts of a hundred years with Democracy and 
despotism. 

After months of discussion and numerous calls 
on the part of the people for a popular and general 
assembly of the nation, and owing to the low con¬ 
dition of the public treasury and the desire of the 
government to compel the aristocracy to pay more 
taxes, the call for the assembly was sanctioned by 
the king, and the command was accordingly issued 
for an election, and the delegates or members to 
meet at Versailles, the headquarters of the govern¬ 
ment, about ten miles from the city of Paris. The 
call was issued in January, 1789, the delegates to 
assemble in June. These delegates were accord¬ 
ingly elected by what was called states or estates, 
separately, one set to be elected by the hereditary 
aristocracy, one set by the mercantile and manufact¬ 
uring classes, called the “ci-devant” aristocracy, and 


56 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

the third and more numerous set by the rural and 
farming population. 

WhenThe delegates had been elected and were 
coming^together, the king ordered that each set or 
estate should meet, discuss and vote in separate 
halls. To this the rural delegates, who outnum¬ 
bered both the other sets, and some of the second 
set objected, and after several weeks of great con¬ 
fusion,^wrangling and danger, both the king and 
the aristocracy consented for all the delegates to 
meet in one hall. And here it should be remarked,, 
for the credit of the French people, there were 
among the delegates elected a large number of the 
most intelligent,, scientific and patriotic men of 
France. There were also among them over one 
hundred of the most eminent lawyers of the coun¬ 
try, and indeed a very large number of men who 
were distinguished for their statesmanship and 
public services. These delegates numbered over 
seven hundred, and comprised in fact the most cul¬ 
tivated and patriotic body of men that had ever as¬ 
sembled in France, and it soon appeared that a 
large majority of the members were decidedly con¬ 
servative in their sentiments, and desired above all 
things prudent and necessary reforms in the govern¬ 
ment. Indeed, it was ascertained that a large ma¬ 
jority were in favor of a limited monarchy, or a 
mixture of monarchy and republicanism like the 
government of Great Britain, or a pure and unadul¬ 
terated republican form of government, like that of 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


57 


the United States, and such as the French people 
have now obtained, after a struggle of a hundred 
years with Democracy and despotism. 

But no sooner had the assembly got fairly to 
work, and before it had consummated any measure 
of reform or anything like a wise and safe consti¬ 
tution, a few selfish, unscrupulous and ambitious 
men of the second and third class, calling them¬ 
selves Democrats, got up a faction both inside and 
outside of the general assembly. This faction soon 
after hired a hall of a man by the name of Jacobus 
in the city of Paris, where meetings and discussions 
were to be held, and were held daily, Sundays not 
excepted. Hence the faction took the name of the 
Jacobin Democrats, by which they have been known 
from that day to this. But no sooner had this step 
been taken than all the communists, socialists and 
anarchists, that have long been very numerous in 
France, and all the thieves, robbers, gamblers and 
loafers within reach, flocked to these meetings, to 
unite themselves with this faction. Affiliating 
Democratic clubs were also formed throughout 
France, which soon gathered into these organizations 
all the immoral, discontented and dangerous ele¬ 
ments in the land, and strange as it may seem to us 
of the present day, in less than one year after the 
organization of the general assembly, this voluntary, 
irresponsible, Jacobin, Democratic organization had 
become the paramount and all-controlling political 
power of France, and the general assembly had 


58 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

become only an echo and a recording court of its 
edicts and commands, with such men as Danton, 
Marat and Robespierre as leaders and tools of the 
Democracy. 

But not to burden the readers with numerous 
minor schemes, tricks and crimes that were soon 
originated and perpetrated, after badgering, threat¬ 
ening and frightening many of the conservative 
members from their post in the assembly, one of the 
leading acts of this Jacobin demoniac Democracy 
was the arrest, imprisonment, trial and beheading 
at the guillotine of twenty-two of the leading and 
conservative members or Girondists, as they were 
then called. M. Rowland, a statesman, patriot and 
chief leader of the Girondists, made his escape, 
and, after wandering and hiding about for months 
from the Democracy, committed suicide. In re¬ 
venge for this, they, the Democrats, soon after 
seized his beautiful and accomplished wife and had 
her guillotined, in the presence of a large Demo¬ 
cratic crowd. 

But let us go back and generalize a little more 
before we go on with the leading horrors of the 
Democracy. 

It would be as impossible to give a minute account 
of the Democratic reign of terror in France as it 
would be to paint a cyclone, or a maelstrom of the 
ocean. Were it not for the shocking cruelties and 
barbarities committed by the party, it might be 
called a pyrotechnic display of light and shade, and of 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


59 


life and death. M. Thiers, a learned statesman of 
France, undertook a history of “this reign of terror,” 
in four or five large volumes, but he who has read 
them is about as much in the dark as to those horri¬ 
ble deeds as he was before reading them. Confu¬ 
sion, chaos and death should be written on every 
page of that history, yet it is right and proper to 
refer to some of the leading and salient points, and 
especially to the main results, in order to obtain some 
approximate and correct idea of the fearful dangers 
that always lurk in a Democratic party, and are ever 
ready to burst forth when not controlled by some 
master mind, and when in possession of unbri¬ 
dled, political power. In ancient Greece the 
Democratic party at first had a Solon as dictator, 
whose advice they were induced to respect, after he 
had abolished all their debts and granted other de¬ 
mands. But while Solon was living they were in¬ 
duced to co-operate in the establishment of a gen¬ 
eral assembly of five thousand, knowing, as they 
did, that this would always afford them a majority 
of delegates, which assembly, by the way, always 
operated as a balance wheel in the State, but even 
with this, and before Solon’s death, Pisistratus was 
enabled to declare himself “ tyrant,” which position 
he and his offspring maintained for fifty years, by 
the aid and co-operation of the general assembly of 
five thousand. 

In our own country Democratic factions kept our 
country in a semi-anarchical and chaotic state for 


60 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

about a dozen years after the Revolutionary war. 
But after the adoption of the Constitution of the 
United States as our great balance wheel, and 
owing to the conservative character and habits of 
our people, the Democracy ranted and raved for 
forty years before they got control of the govern¬ 
ment . 

But when they had obtained this control, our peo¬ 
ple had discretion and coolness enough to hold the 
Democracy in check for thirty years before they, the 
leaders, were able to plunge the country into the 
great Democratic Rebellion. But in France in less 
than two years after the formation of a Democratic 
party, it being without a master mind to control 
them, the power of the king and his government 
had become utterly demoralized and paralyzed, thus 
leaving the Democracy an open way and a clear 
field for the exercise of its natural, genuine and 
anarchical characteristics, which a Democratic party 
always exhibits. And hence the horrible scenes 
that took place during the four or five years of the 
Democracy in France, to some more acts of which 
we must now refer. 

Among the first and leading acts of the Democracy,, 
after it had obtained the entire control of the general 
assembly and the government, was the appointment 
of a committee of five, called “the Committee of Safe¬ 
ty,” whose business it was made to watch the oppo¬ 
nents of Democracy, and to arrest, try and put to 
death such as interferred with or attempted to disturb 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


61 


what they called the harmony and brotherly love of 
the Democratic party. This committee was com¬ 
posed, as its acts soon demonstrated, of the most 
bloody-minded and cruel wretches that could be 
found in France. Their power extended to all classes 
and conditions of the citizens, and to all things they 
might consider as offensive and detrimental to the 
new party of “Liberty and Fraternity,” as they 
called themselves. This committee was more or 
less subject to the guidance and control of Marat, 
Danton and Robespierre, and to Robespierre alone 
when the others had been put out of the way. 

By the time the disposition and proclivities of this 
44 Committee of Safety” had been fully developed, 
hundreds of the members of the general assembly 
and live hundred thousand of the most intelligent 
and patriotic citizens of France had fled from their 
country. The committee being constantly en¬ 
couraged by the Democratic crowds, their bloody 
work went boldly on until over five thousand of the 
best citizens had been murdered, for no other crime 
or cause than opposition to the Democratic party. 
The work of the committee having become very 
burdensome, for the sake of dispatch they hired 
what were called “killers at six francs a day,” whose 
duty it was to catch and dispatch any and all oppo¬ 
nents of the Democracy, and thus the Democratic 
Reign of Terror went on, as before remarked, until 
over live thousand Frenchmen had been put to death 
by the guillotine. 


62 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 

In the midst of these cruelties, the Jacobin club, 
with the general assembly at its command, had been 
playing the hypocrite with the good-natured and easy¬ 
going king, Louis XVI., now utterly demoralized 
and powerless. And after compelling him to sanc¬ 
tion and approve their abominations, they declared 
him deposed from his throne, and an enemy to 
French liberty and the French nation, and as a con¬ 
sequence, after having him and his family mocked 
and insulted by the Democratic rabble, compelled 
him to undergo a mock trial and then be carried to 
the guillotine, where his head was taken off, amid 
the beating of drums and shouts of the multitude. 
About this time, also, they harvested baskets full of 
heads of the king’s relatives and friends, both young 
and old, male and female, and after keeping his 
beautiful queen, Maria Antoinette, the daughter of the 
Emperor of Austria, in torture for several months, 
they had her also beheaded at the guillotine, all of 
which scenes seemed to give great joy to the De¬ 
mocracy. 

Also, during these years of Democratic reign, the 
leaders collected together an immense crowd in the 
city of Paris, who went through the blasphemous 
ceremony of denying the existence of Almighty 
God, of condemning the Bible, the Christian church 
and all other kinds of religion, and then set up in the 
public square a live harlot as an object of respect 
and worship. 

It is possible that these last abominations did not all 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


63 


arise from Democratic , sentiments and dispositions, 
and that they had arisen in part from the infidel and 
skeptical sentiments of the people of France in gen¬ 
eral. But it is nevertheless true that no other polit¬ 
ical party or sect on the face of the earth ever would 
have ventured upon such an outrage against moral¬ 
ity and the social relations of domestic and civilized 
life but a Democratic party in possession of supreme 
power. 

As to the industrial and commercial relations of 
France, in less than eighteen months after the 
Democracy had obtained full sway, commerce and 
manufacturing interests had become completely 
paralyzed, and starvation stared fully one-fourth 
of the people of France in the face. Agricultural 
work had also greatly diminished. In this, our 
country, owing to our people’s experience with free 
government and Democratic factions, and owing to 
the adoption of our great Constitution, with its wise 
and patriotic provisions, the Democracy did not gain 
supreme power and control over our government for 
more than fifty years, and when they had gained 
control, as they did in 1829, it took seven years for the 
party to paralyze our industries and commerce, and 
bring millions to poverty, as the Democrats of this 
country did in 1837, and then it took twenty years 
more to get up our great civil war. Whereas, 
owing to the utter paralyzution of the French gov¬ 
ernment, the way being clear and an open field, it 
took the French Democracy less than two years ta 


6 \ CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

produce a horrible civil war, and to reduce the peo¬ 
ple to a state of anarchy, bloodshed and barbarism. 

And here the questions arise. What did the Democ¬ 
racy do in the presence of an empty treasury, and 
the starvation of the people of France ? What 
scheme did they adopt to raise money ? They 
simply seized upon and confiscated, or essayed to 
confiscate, all the property of the nobility and other 
opponents, which probably amounted to about one- 
half of the real estate of the kingdom. Upon this 
they issued what they called assignats or real estate 
warrants, which any one who had money could get 
and locate them on any of the confiscated property, 
something after the style of the American land 
warrants and our public land sales. This scheme 
took with thousands who had money, which en¬ 
abled them, as they supposed, to secure blocks of 
real estate at less than half its value. This opera¬ 
tion gave the Democracy for the time being plenty 
of cash. 

Nor did these things stop the shedding of frater¬ 
nal blood, but rather increased it. The emigrants, 
as the exiles were called, went to work to get up 
war between France and the neighboring nations, 
with the hope of some relief for themselves, while 
at the same time, the Democratic leaders used their 
powers to foment such wars to strengthen and con¬ 
tinue their hold upon power, and as a matter of 
course this scheme succeeded, and as luck would 
have it, the French arms generally met with sue- 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


65 


cess, and foreign wars became the order of the 
times, in which thousands of men perished, and 
thousands of women and children were made widows 
and orphans. 

Again, amidst these foreign and border wars 
several districts of France revolted against the 
Democracy. But flushed with success both in 
obtaining money, and in battles with the foreigners, 
the Democratic government, if government it may 
be called, sent strong military detachments to the 
revolting districts and had the people indiscriminately 
slain, with as little ceremony and compunction of 
conscience as hunters show in shooting wild beasts 
and birds. In some places, as in La Vendee, the 
Democratic soldiery crowded old hulks of vessels 
with men, women and children, then anchored them 
off shore, and had them sunk, by the discharge of 
artillery from the land. As another specimen of the 
manner in which the revolting towns and people 
were treated, the following is copied from the 
Encyclopedia Britannica: 

“From Toulon most of the inhabitants had fled 
for refuge to the English ships ; at Lyons (a large 
manufacturing town) the convention ordered the 
destruction of the city, and the establishment of a 
new town to be called 4 Commune Affranchie 
many hundreds of the citizens were guillotined, and 
when the process proved too slow, were shot down 

by platoon fire.” 

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66 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

This was the kind of treatment that the innocent 
people received from the hands of the unterrified, 
time-honored and glorious Democracy of France, 
and which, as their leaders claimed, was intended 
to establish “ freedom of thought, freedom of ac¬ 
tion, equal rights, and brotherly love, on the soil of 
France.” 

During the occurrence of these events, the work 
of the Committee of Safety and Killers was vigor¬ 
ously prosecuted. Meantime, also, a brave woman, 
Charlotte Corday, put an end to the life of Marat, 
for which she herself was sent to .the guillotine. This 
left the leadership entirely in the hands of Danton 
and Robespierre. But the latter soon found means 
to have Danton sent to the guillotine and his head 
taken off, which event left Roberspierre as the sole 
leader, whose orders the Democracy continued to 
obey. But at last, the friends of the murdered citi¬ 
zens had become so numerous that they were enabled 
to form a combination with a majority of the con¬ 
vention to have Robespierre himself arrested and 
put to death at his own guillotine, which event took 
place on the 27th of July, 1794, and about five years 
after the first meeting of the great national assembly, 
and the organization of the Jacobin Democratic 
party, and its irresponsible accession to supreme po¬ 
litical power. 

All this audacious, cruel and horrible piece of 
work and this piece of Democratic history affords 
ample proof that natural, and unbridled Democ- 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


6 7 


racy, in pursuit or possession of supreme power? 
is always dangerous, and that its characteristics 
and proclivities for anarchy and revolution, and 
its thirst for the destruction of human life, hu¬ 
man character and civilized institutions are always 
imminent, and threatening, and that if a Demo¬ 
cratic party is not always wholly depraved, the 
large and controlling element of ignorance, vicious¬ 
ness and depravity, which such an organization 
always embraces, renders it utterly unfit to be 
entrusted with political power, or to be allowed to 
exist as a political party in any civilized community. 

It was claimed, and as we supposed with some 
truth, that the death of Robespierre put an end to 
“ the Reign of Terror”—Democratic terror in 
France. That the emigrants began to, and did, re¬ 
turn in large numbers is quite certain. But neither 
the Democratic party nor its power had been over¬ 
thrown or much weakened by the death of Robe¬ 
spierre. Its life and energy consisted in its organi¬ 
zation and the power for overturning and crushing 
anything and everything that seemed to obstruct its 
march to destruction or despotism. Such a party 
never did have any respect for rules, precedents or 
examples of any kind. 

In about one year, therefore, after the death of 
Robespierre, there was organized a most formida¬ 
ble insurrection or mob against the very convention 
or assembly which had long stood by Marat, Dan- 
ton and Robespierre, the true representatives and 


68 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

tools of the Democracy. It was against this purely 
Democratic convention and organization that this 
powerful mob was organized to overthrow and dis¬ 
perse. It was said to have been engineered by the 
aristocracy. But there were hardly noblemen 
enough then in France to inspire and control a for¬ 
midable mob. France was at this time almost sol¬ 
idly Democratic, and this mob must have been no 
more nor less than Democracy against Democracy. 

At that time Napoleon Bonaparte was Colonel of 
artillery. He had fought the English at Toulon, 
and had fought in other battles with great credit, 
but he was or had been a strong Democratic sup¬ 
porter of Robespierre in some of his horrid w r ork, 
and after his death had been hiding out to save his 
own neck from the guillotine. But when the great 
insurrection or mob was about to move upon the con¬ 
vention and government, such as it was, for the pur¬ 
pose of wiping it out of existence, the members were 
induced to appoint Bonaparte commander-in-chief 
of the army in and about Paris, which position he 
gladly accepted, and soon had artillery posted on all 
the approaches, and as the main column came 
marching up in solid phalanx he opened fire upon 
them, and mowed them down, Democrats as well 
others, like grass before the scythe, and thus scat¬ 
tered them in every direction. 

This step, this effective action, at once changed the 
sentiments, the hope and the character of the French 
Democracy forever. It converted them into the most 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


69 

docile, meek and obedient people ever seen in 
France. Just as soon as the rank and file had dis¬ 
covered that they had a master and an absolute des¬ 
pot at their head, who was ready to cut down friends 
or foes without ceremony, they were as obedient as 
children, and continued so during Napoleon’s reign 
of about twenty years, and until fully one-half of 
the wealth of France had been wasted and destroyed* 
and millions of Frenchmen and other Europeans 
had been sent to their graves by the calamities of 
war. 

All readers know something of the Democratic 
Napoleonic wars which raged for about a score of 
years, and in which all European nations &nd parts 
of Asia and Africa were involved, and that in them 
millions upon millions of the human family and their 
substance perished without any appreciable benefit 
to civilized society. And here it may not be amiss 
to quote another passage or two from the apocalyp¬ 
tic visions as applicable to the times and events. 
Indeed some of the most astute interpreters of the 
prophets, claim the passages point directly to the 
French Democracy, infidelity and skepticism as 
“the smoke from the bottomless pit.” And, secondly, 
that the Hebrew name Abaddon and the G-reek 
name Apolyon mean the French name Napoleon, 
and that the whole scene of the French wars is 
epitomized in the following passages : 

“And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earthy 
and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into 


70 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

the great wine-press of the wrath of God. And 
the wine-press was trodden without the city, and 
blood came out of the wine-press even unto the 
horses’ bridles, by the space of a thousand and six 
hundred furlongs.” Rev. 14:19, 20. 

Certainly there is no part of the world’s history 
since the days of the prophet to which these pas¬ 
sages are more applicable. But be this application 
legitimate or not, most readers know that France 
was and still is a country ofmany wine-presses, and 
a country of many skeptics, and that the Demo¬ 
cratic Napoleonic wars mainly took place outside of 
France, or at least outside the great city of Paris, 
the headquarters of Napoleon and Democracy, and 
that after the winding up of the bloody conflicts at 
the battle of Waterloo, the sovereigns of Europe 
debated in Paris itself the propriety of dividing up 
the French territory and people among the adjacent 
nations, so wasted and impoverished had the French 
nation become from the Democratic and Napoleonic 
wars. But a voice from on high was heard which 
said “See that thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” 
So France was spared for further probation. 

The Constitution formed by the great general as¬ 
sembly of the French under the control and dictation 
of the Jacobin Democracy, placed all the powers of 
the State in one general assembly, something after 
the style of the Greek general assembly of five 
thousand, and they then voted, under the direction of 
the Jacobin Democracy, that no member of that as- 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


71 

sembly should be elected to a place in the next as¬ 
sembly, or any other office in the State. Was not this 
anarchical Democracy ? But even this Constitution, 
Democratic as it was, in all its features, was changed 
or sought to be changed several times by the Jaco¬ 
bin Democracy during their reign, to make it still 
more “Radically Democratic,” or anarchical in its 
tendency. 

It is illogical and morally wrong to apologize, or 
attempt to apologize, for the horrible conduct of the 
French Democracy, on the ground of their igno¬ 
rance and want of experience in polititcal matters, 
inasmuch as natural and genuine Democracy, with all 
its ignorance and depravity organized into a politi¬ 
cal party, becomes the worst and most to be dreaded 
of all political influences, parties and powers, sects 
or denominations. 

Secondly, reference has been made to the elec¬ 
tion of members to the great general assembly of 
1789, when there was no French Democratic party 
in existence, and that a large majority of that assem¬ 
bly was composed of learned, patriotic and conserv¬ 
ative citizens, but that after the Jacobin Demo¬ 
cratic party had been formed, and new assemblymen 
were elected, hardly a statesman or conservative 
man was returned, and that those who were returned' 
were solid and violent Jacobin Democrats. And 
here too, it should be observed that the elections or 
pretended elections under the Democratic reign, 
were nothing more nor less than Democratic mobs, 


72 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

with lying and cheating managers, such as we have 
often seen under the Democracy in our country. 

Thirdly, with the exception of Charlotte Corday, 
the slayer of Marat,the Democratic Reign of Terror, 
which shocked the whole world with its atrocities, 
has left no historical characters as representatives 
of its work but Marat, Danton and Robespierre. 
Nor did any of these leaders leave on record a single 
sentiment or rule of action for the comfort, or 
proper enlightenment of posterity. All of their 
works smell of Tartarus and Satan. 

But say some Democrats, there are some grounds 
of apology and excuse for the horrible and barbar¬ 
ous conduct of the French Democracy. This they 
claim upon the ground that they .were no worse by 
nature than other men, and that they had not en¬ 
joyed any experience with a free government and 
the elective franchise. In this there is a semblance 
of reason. But the truth, the whole truth, and 
nothing but the truth is, as to the cause of these out¬ 
rages and barbarities all came from the fact,and the in¬ 
disputable fact, that the word Democracy, as a party 
name,drew and beguiled into its ranks all,or nearly all r 
the vile elements and vile characters in the land, and 
that this vile element and these vile characters pre¬ 
dominated in the party, as such elements and char¬ 
acters always do predominate in a Democratic 
party, and at once took possession and control of the 
organization, and guided and controlled by their 
passions and instincts, they soon plunged the party 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


73 


into all the crimes, cruelties and barbarities that sug¬ 
gest themselves to the vilest natures. And the 
.truth is the French Democratic party did nothing 
more nor less than a Democratic party in any other 
country, under the same circumstances and relations* 
unbridled by any other influence or political power, 
would have done. Hence we come to the inevitable 
conclusion that in natural and genuine Democracy, 
when organized into a party and when not con¬ 
trolled by some higher and more patriotic authority, 
becomes nothing more nor less than organized revo¬ 
lution and treason to all kinds of civil government 
and civilization. 

But now let us return from France to American 
soil, to American society, to American interests, 
and plain words and conclusions. Not to criticize or 
reproach the young men and brave soldiers who 
served in our great Democratic Rebellion with high 
honor, but to further criticize and expose the Demo¬ 
cratic leaders, north and south, east and west, who 
originated and worked up the great Rebellion, and 
to further illustrate the always anarchical and revo¬ 
lutionary character of a Democratic party, and the 
wreck and ruin upon which it seems to flourish, let 
us refer again to the experience which our country 
has had with this, our own, Democratic party. 

When the mad and insane Rebellion had been 
crushed out and scattered to the four winds, and the 
institution of slavery, which had been the chief pre¬ 
text for Rebellion, had been utterly overthrown as a 


74 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

consequence of the war, and when the Democratic 
organization itself had been utterly overthrown for 
the time being, by the power of the sword, almost 
every intelligent and patriotic citizen supposed that 
the organization had been broken up and driven 
from our country forever. At that time thousands 
upon thousands of Democrats themselves thought and 
acted in the same light, but not so with all of them. 
There were in the part} T mad, revengeful arch spirit, 
like those which had been driven out of heaven for 
rebellion against Almighty God. These unscrupu¬ 
lous and selfish spirits, who had experienced and 
well understood the characteristics and proclivities 
of a Democratic party, said no, and that they must 
hold to the organization and name as their only 
safety and hope of a reactionary revolution, and 
said by their actions and words, we must still cher¬ 
ish and uphold the unterrified, time-honored and 
glorious Democratic party, albeit it is time-honored 
and glorious only for the wreck and ruin it has al¬ 
ways produced in every country, where it has had 
a foothold. These men said in their hearts, if not 
in their words, we know the fascination and attrac¬ 
tion of the word Democracy as a party name among 
the ignorant and depraved portion of the popula¬ 
tion; we must therefore uphold this Democratic 
organization, and rally it's broken ranks as our only 
hope for future political standing and rewards, and 
do we not know that a Democratic party; if held 
together at all, is always held together by “the 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


75 


cohesive power of public plunder? Democracy is 
not a Stygian lake from which comes forth nothing 
but fire and brimstone, but a talismanic word for 
freedom, liberty and equal rights by which we, its 
leaders, mount into high positions and fat offices, 
even in the midst of the wreck and ruin it may pro¬ 
duce. We must, therefore, hold to the name and the 
organization as our only anchor of safety and reward, 
and perhaps for another rebellion and the overthrow 
of the hated power by which we have been crushed. 
It was these voices, these sentiments, whether openly 
or secretly expressed, that prevailed and brought 
forth the fruits, and the threatening attitude of this 
party now before us, in the form of a strong, an¬ 
archical and revolutionary party, all their protesta¬ 
tions to the contrary notwithstanding. 

And argue it as we may, the great question of 
to-day is, shall the people of the United States be 
compelled to pass through another Democratic 
bloody conflict, with the prospect of its ending in the 
rise of an American Napoleon to overthrow and 
trample in the dust our American freedom, and 
American institutions, our American government and 
American civilization? Or shall the people, as true 
patriots and friends of mankind, join hearts and 
hands and overthrow this fearful party by civil and 
peaceable means, as we hope and trust we can do, 
by the help and blessing of Almighty God? 

Of all the qualities and virtues necessary and in¬ 
dispensable in the safe conduct of government affairs 


7 6 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

are honesty, integrity, faithfulness, and skill in its 
business and financial operations. But of all these 
qualities aud virtues, the Democratic party is the 
most deficient and destitute of any party, sect, or 
organization in the world. Or, to put it more 
mildly, the party seems always to bristle with plun¬ 
derers, pilferers and thieves. General Jackson once 
said to Mr. Webster, that in making his appoint¬ 
ments he always sought for honest men, but the 
most of them when they got into position turned 
out to be thieves. 

Mr. Calhoun, in his great speech in 1834 on 
removal of the deposits, said : 

“The senator from Kentucky has given a descrip¬ 
tion of Caesar forcing himself, sword in hand, into 
the treasury of the Roman Commonwealth. We fire 
at the same stage of our political revolution, and the 
analogy between the two cases is complete, varied 
only by the characters of the actors and the circum¬ 
stances of the times. That was the case of an in- 
intripid and bold warrior, as an open plunderer, 
seizing forcibly the treasury of the country, which 
in that republic, as well as ours, was confided to the 
custody of the legislative department of the govern¬ 
ment. The actors in our case are of a different 
character, artful and cunning politicians, and not 
fearless warriors. They have entered the treasury, 
not sword in hand as public plunderers, but with 
the false keys of sophistry, as pilferers, under the 
silence of midnight. The motive and object are the 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


77 


same, varied only by character and circumstances. 
‘With money I will get men and with men money,’ 
was the maxim of the Roman plunderer. With 
money we will get partisans and with partisans 
votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our 
public pilferers. With men and money, Caesar 
struck down Roman liberty at the battle of Phar- 
salia, never to rise again ; from which disastrous 
hour all the powers of the Roman republic were 
consolidated in the person of Caesar, and perpetuated 
in his line.” 

The removal of the deposits of the United States, 
amounting to about $ 10,000,oop, from the Bank of 
the United States, where they had been placed by 
the laws of Congress for safe keeping, was done 
by Jackson and his kitchen cabinet, with Benton 
at their head ; that is to say, to State banks and other 
places, where the entire amount and millions more 
of the government revenue fell into the hands of 
artful and cunning politicians, plunderers, pilferers, 
and gigantic Democratic thieves. This vandal and 
tyrannical scheme was opposed by Jackson’s reg¬ 
ular and constitutional cabinet, and by hundreds of 
other intelligent and honest Democrats. Hence, 
the censure . and condemnation by. Mr. Calhoun 
was by no means too sharp or severe for such a 
violation of the laws of the land and such a mon¬ 
strous crime. The truth is every one who had a 
hand in this despotic action ought to have been sent 
to the penitentiary for life, and would have’ been 


78 CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

so treated under any regime but that of a Demo¬ 
cratic party, and would doubtless have been so 
treated by this party had the crime been committed 
by opponents of Democracy. 

The truth of the matter is, the entire reign of the 
Democracy under Jackson and Van Buren was 
everywhere stained and punctured with robbery and 
plunder from the government and the people. Nor 
was there much improvement in this respect during 
the entire reign of the party. If then this party 
in so short a time of its existence could afford so 
many plunderers, pilferers and thieves, as to have 
the boldness and audacity to seize upon the public 
treasury of $10,000,000, what might not the party 
do, if it should again come into power, 'with the 
public deposits amounting, say to $200,000,000, and 
the revenue of the country vastly augmented ? And 
how long would it take such a party, with its usual 
quota of ignorance and depravity, and its usual 
quota of sophistry and cunning, to drive and drag 
the people of this country from tranquility, content¬ 
ment and plenty down to poverty and ruin ? Or, 
to state the case in other words, how long would it 
take such a party with such a vast amount of funds 
at its command, to so corrupt and degrade the 
people, as to render them willing to accept the 
worst kind of despotism as a relief and refuge from 
Democratic rapacity and cruelty. A party which, by 
the influence of its name, gather into its ranks all 
or nearly all the worst elements and the worst char- 


DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. 


79 


acters in the land, and enough of them to control and 
influence the action of the party—a party with a 
name whose entire history presents a history of 
wreck and ruin, and the tendency of which is ever 
towards anarchy and barbarism—is unfit to be trusted 
with the government of any nation or people, and 
should be abolished in every civilized country for¬ 
ever. 


Note. —Again, the author begs leave to refer the readers of 
this supplement to his “ History of Democracy as a Party 
Name and as a Political Organization ” for a more extended 
history of the Democratic warfare against the Bank of the 
United States, and the wreck and ruin the party brought upon 
the people. 


































































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ADVANCE SHEETS 

THE 

ANARCHICAL AND REVOLUTIONARY 
CHARACTER 


OF A 


DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 


A SUPPLEMENT 

To “Democracy Considered as a Party Name, and as a 
Political Organization.” 


By JONATHAN NORCROSS. 


This country affords the last stronghold of a Democratic Organiza¬ 
tion, and it is unquestionably certain that this Party must be broken 
up, or it, will break up the Government of the United States, and over¬ 
turn A merican civilization. 


ATLANTA, GA.: 

As. P. Harrison & Co., Printers, 
(Franklin Publishing House.) 
1891. 






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